BFC vs. FULT, BANF, WSFS, CBU, WAFD, PRK, SFNC, BANC, FFBC, and FRME
Should you be buying Bank First stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank First include Fulton Financial (FULT), BancFirst (BANF), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Community Bank System (CBU), WaFd (WAFD), Park National (PRK), Simmons First National (SFNC), Banc of California (BANC), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), and First Merchants (FRME). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Fulton Financial (NASDAQ:FULT) and Bank First (NASDAQ:BFC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Bank First has a net margin of 32.08% compared to Bank First's net margin of 18.31%. Bank First's return on equity of 11.73% beat Fulton Financial's return on equity.
Fulton Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Bank First pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Fulton Financial pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank First pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Fulton Financial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Bank First has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
Fulton Financial currently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.89%. Bank First has a consensus price target of $93.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.53%. Given Fulton Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bank First is more favorable than Fulton Financial.
Fulton Financial has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank First has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fulton Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Bank First. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Fulton Financial and 3 mentions for Bank First. Bank First's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Fulton Financial's score of -0.04 indicating that Fulton Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fulton Financial received 256 more outperform votes than Bank First when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 48.28% of users gave Bank First an outperform vote while only 46.00% of users gave Fulton Financial an outperform vote.
72.0% of Fulton Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.0% of Bank First shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Fulton Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Bank First shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fulton Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Bank First. Fulton Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank First, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fulton Financial beats Bank First on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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